In April 2017, an investigation was undertaken by Environmental Health Officers at Brent Council after local residents reported rubbish being dumped near the office of Ommegas Services Ltd, an accountancy firm, in Kingsbury, Middlesex. The discovery of...

Wolverhampton Council’s Trading Standards team has seized more than 2,000 counterfeit “Squishies” toys after undertaking test purchases in Wolverhampton. The toys were transported in loose packaging from China. The toys were tested for...

On 22 February 2016, Mr Van Chuyen Le, employed by Cambus Limited trading as Stagecoach East, lost control of the bus he was driving which caused it to jump over the guided section of the track and cross an adjacent path onto the side of a grassy embankment....

In September 2017, Police and Trading Standards Officers seized in excess of 14,000 illegal cigarettes and 380 grams of tobacco from the Polski Sklep N1 store in West Bromwich. The items, with a retail value of approximately £7,000, were disguised in...

Environmental Health Officers undertook an inspection of Bunters takeaway in Huntingdon in August 2017 following a complaint about the business. The takeaway was given a zero star food hygiene rating, which is the lowest possible score and means that...

John Jones Civil Engineering & Groundworks Ltd was fined £50,000 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £50,000 at Hereford Magistrates’ Court on 3   July 2018 after pleading guilty to illegally depositing waste at Bage...

Northumbrian Water Ltd was sentenced on 23 July at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to an offence under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016. The company was ordered to pay a fine of £33,600 in respect of three...

Abdul Shamim, trading as the Dilshad restaurant in Wednesbury, was sentenced at Black Country Magistrates’ Court on 19 July 2018. Mr Shamim was fined £1,920 and ordered to pay costs of £1,408.14 to Sandwell Council as well as a victim...

The owner and director of Clearview Design and Construction Ltd, Mr Simon Thomerson, has received a custodial sentence after a fire killed two of his employees and injured another employee. On 3 October 2015, several employees were refurbishing several...

Booze Corner Ltd, an off-licence in Willenhall, has been fined £1,200 after selling alcohol to a person who was below the legal age to purchase it. The sale took place during a test purchase exercise by Walsall Council's Trading Standards...

On 11 April 2018, the TX Maxx store in Croydon was inspected by an environmental health officer from Croydon Council. The store was given a zero star food hygiene rating, which is the lowest possible score, after mouse urine and droppings were discovered on...

Faltec Europe Limited, a car parts manufacturer in Tyne and Wear, was fined £1.6million at Newcastle Crown Court on 17 May 2018 following an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease and an explosion at the plant in the same year.   The company...

Andrena Furniture Ltd, a dining and cabinet furniture manufacturer in Hertfordshire, pleaded guilty at Luton Magistrates’ Court on 2 May 2018 to breaching Regulations 7(1) and 9(2)(a) of the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002. ...

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust) pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 on 20 April 2018 at Bristol Crown Court. The Trust was fined £300,000 and ordered to pay costs of...

Abington Supermarkets Ltd and director Sohan Lal were fined at Northampton Magistrates’ Court on 17 April 2018 after selling a packet of 20 cigarettes to a 16 year old Test Purchaser in August 2017....

On 17 December 2015, an employee of Wessex Insulation Limited, Weymouth, fractured his back in six places after he fell four metres through a fragile roof whilst installing insulation in ventilation ductwork at a leisure centre. An investigation by the...

The owners of Positive Steps Children’s Day Nursery in Shellingford pleaded guilty to five food hygiene offences at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on 10 April 2018. They were ordered to pay a fine of £60,000, costs of £1,851.05, and a...

In November 2015, hundreds of dead fish were found in the River Amber in Derbyshire. Following an Environment Agency (EA) investigation, it was discovered that the pollution was caused by sodium hydroxide released from Ogston Water Treatment works which were...

The owner and manager of a takeaway, Kasim Ali Ahmed, pleaded guilty to 12 food hygiene offences committed at Harveys Chicken and Pizza in Kirkham. He was given a six-month custodial sentence on 6 April 2018 at Preston Crown Court. The offences included...

The Waste Enforcement (England and Wales) Regulations 2018 (The Regulations) granted new powers to the Environment Agency (EA) when they came into force on 29 March 2018. The Regulations allow the EA to restrict access to illegal waste sites by physical...